Isobel or Isabelle?

[Lovethewinter]

Which do you think of as the 'normal' spelling? Husband and I don't agree!

Going against the grain here but I like Isabelle, it looks prettier to me. I think she’ll have her name spelt like this a lot. We considered Isabelle for our DD but were put off by the many variants.

Have an Isabella in our family but she been called Bella all her life....

Thanks all. I'm not too worried if it's a popular name - I'm a teacher and have taught a couple of Izzys so know it's not uncommon! It's actually the nickname Izzy that draws me to it the most and I think it goes well with my daughter's name.

We don't actually know what we're having but we're screwed if it's a boy as we have nothing and I'm currently 11 days overdue 😱

Prefer Isabelle (we are actually going for this name) but my family also have a lot French names in the family (despite having zero french connection).

I think Isabel is an usual spelling and she'll be correcting people all the time and get annoyed

@Lovethewinter

Thanks all. I'm not too worried if it's a popular name - I'm a teacher and have taught a couple of Izzys so know it's not uncommon! It's actually the nickname Izzy that draws me to it the most and I think it goes well with my daughter's name.

We don't actually know what we're having but we're screwed if it's a boy as we have nothing and I'm currently 11 days overdue 😱

Do you not know the sex yet?? Ahh OP start a thread on poss boys names too if you don't have anything in mind, just incase it's not an 'Izzy'?

@Frazzledd I think I've seen every boy name that exists on google/the kinder app now and I've just given up 🙈

Both are normal spellings. I prefer Isabel, but if I were to choose between Isobel and Isabelle, I'd choose Isabelle.

Isobel